Peaceful Valley Boulevard and Rumblin

Joshua Klein on pitchfork.com
in his review
of Neil Young's Le Noise album about my two favorites:

"In fact, for all its hushed restraint, the eerie "Peaceful Valley Boulevard" is a real highlight, a paean to a doomed America that plays like a tragic lyrical descendent of "Pocahontas" and "Cortez the Killer". Young may be famous for his maelstrom guitar, but in this case the apocalypse sneaks up on us with a whisper, Young's voice steeped in decades of watching the world go to hell. "When will I learn how to heal?" he later implores in "Rumblin'", knowing full well that the damage has already been done."

"While IPv4 and IPv6 are very much alike to users and applications; 'on the wire', the protocols are completely separate and don't interact. In routing, we call this the "ships in the night" approach. (Hopefully, at least one of them has radar.) The advantage of this design is that there is no need to change existing IPv4 infrastructureIPv6 is simply added as a new protocol. All the limitations and mistakes that are part of IPv4 are left behind. The problem with this approach is that the first person who wants to turn off IPv4 has to wait for the last person to add IPv6."

Running out of IPv4 address space, no ubiquitous DHCPv6 support, no IPv6 NAT, too much IPv4 NAT, the threat of DNS whitelisting, and no Plan B, oh my!

Chris Foresman
writes on ars technica:
"The Diaspora projectan attempt to make an open source, peer-to-peer replacement for Facebook with a focus on privacyhas reached its first major milestone. The first developer alpha is
now available for download and review,
and the group is now accepting code contributions from the open source community at large."

In
a comment on Steve Klabnik's blog,
Michael Chisari mentions their
Appleseed project,
another attempt to create an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software, being under development since 2004 and probably more ready for prime time.

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